Word: impaction
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...discarded perseverance as an ideology—sticking it out for the sake of sticking it out—I can see the deeper factors that might justify temporary struggle. In New Orleans, I’ll know that I have the opportunity to have a positive impact on my students. Similarly, when I was working on my English thesis, a project I could have dropped with very few consequences, I enjoyed it because I knew that my motivation was not fear of failure, nor a robotlike dedication to work...
...Mather HoCo Co-Chair Lily G. Bellow ’09 said that there were initial fears that the policy changes would negatively impact the House’s happy hours. As a result, HoCo members began serving a greater variety of drinks, including bottled beers and malt beverages, in order to maintain student interest...
...work has been conducted here at Harvard by Dale Jorgenson (my senior thesis adviser in 1975, by the way) and his colleagues, and other important research in the area has been done at the Federal Reserve Board.11 One key finding of that research is that, to have an economic impact, technological innovations must be translated into successful commercial applications. This country's competitive, market-based system, its flexible capital and labor markets, its tradition of entrepreneurship, and its technological strengths--to which Harvard and other universities make a critical contribution--help ensure that that happens on an ongoing basis...
Reflecting on the practical experience she has gained since her graduation 37 years ago, Johnson-Sirleaf told the graduates that their Kennedy School education would enable them to have a positive impact...
Facing a sea of umbrellas and spectators huddled in ponchos, Time, Inc. Chairman and CEO Ann S. Moore provided a ray of sunny optimism when she challenged members of the Harvard Business School Class of 2008 to use their talents to make a lasting impact on society...